Patricia Madrid, 36, of Farmington, New Mexico, was shot and killed outside her home on the morning of February 26, 2025. She had been arrested eight days earlier, on February 18, in a high-profile child abuse case and was preparing for a court appearance when the shooting occurred. Emergency personnel transported her to San Juan Regional Medical Center, where she died from her injuries.

The abuse case involved allegations that Madrid and her 59-year-old boyfriend, Jammy Jackson, had mistreated Jackson’s 15-year-old daughter between November 2023 and September 2024. The girl, who has autism, ADHD, and fetal alcohol syndrome, told her maternal grandmother she had been forced to stand in a chicken coop for long hours each day, blindfolded and wearing earmuffs, exposed to weather and insects and sometimes whipped with a metal-studded belt. Text messages were reported to show communications between Madrid and Jackson, with Madrid allegedly expressing that she wished the teen was dead.

After the shooting, Farmington police released surveillance footage showing a person of interest in a gray hoodie walking from the area and then riding a bicycle east on Navajo Street. Investigators also reported that Madrid had received numerous threats online and in person after the abuse allegations became public; Madrid’s teenage daughter told police some threats came from the girl’s biological father, Mark Sandoval.

Did anyone in Farmington know Madrid or have information about threats she received that could help the investigation?